Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2003
The Wafd article is a serious distortion of the CIDI report on anti-Semitism and the press release of June 13. Many claims are highly exaggerated. AWR summarized the CIDI report, compared this with the article in the Wafd and provided some comments on the CIDI report.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Egyptologist Lutfi Sherif led an AWR-visit to the land of Goshen in March 2003 and knows the discussion of archeologists on the Exodus quite well. Excavations in the Eastern Delta have become politically sensitive. This article mentions that the claim that the tomb of Alexander the Great was found...
Date of source: Thursday, March 16, 2006
Bishop Munīr’s response to the criticism of Metropolitan Seraphim concerning his portrayal of Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, June 21, 2003 to Friday, June 27, 2003
In an unprecedented move in the history of Israeli extremists, Israeli rabbis issued a fatwa that brands Sharon an unbeliever in order to pave the way for his assassination if he crosses the line. Sharon was accused of unbelief only because he considered satisfying the United States by dismantling...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Egyptian authors show a continuous interest in discussions how to improve the Arab image in the West. This article was written on the request of Dr. Hamdi Hassan for Al-Ahram but not published. The article explains how Arabs can work on improving their image. They can do this IF they are realy...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 4, 2003
The Egyptian weekly Akher Saa published a number of articles with the title: “They sow hatred, malice and war.” [AWR, 2003, week 4, art. 26; week 6, art. 33; week 7, art. 37] The ‘they´ in the title refers to Israelis and Jews. Akher Saa lifts out negative statements on Arabs and Islam from Israeli...
Date of source: Saturday, February 15, 2003
The article in Aqidati of January 28 seems to be intended to wipe up sentiments against Jews and Israel. There are plenty good reasons to criticize Israeli brutal policy towards the Palestinians but this article doesn´t do this but focuses on an aleged report to destroy Mecca and the Ka´ba and thus...
Date of source: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Al-Usbua´s reporting about US interference in Egyptian curricula is the result of polarization between US-government and Egyptian authors who no longer trust information of US government sources. These authors are basing their information on sources they trust but this may result in...
Date of source: Friday, March 23, 2007
In al-Musawwar magazine’sinterview with the grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Sayyid Muhammad Ṭanṭāwī, Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī expressed his opinion and attitude on all the issues on the Arab and Islamic scenes.
Date of source: Thursday, December 22, 2005
Egypt’s Mufti Dr. Alī Juma reviewing four major Islamic institutions in Egypt.
Strained relations between the Vatican and Israel after the pope failed to mention Israel in his list of countries that have suffered terrorist attacks recently.